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Post-quake Nepal: No country for old women

Dolakha, March 3, 2017: Laxmi Devishretha hasn’t spoken for a week. Silent but for the rhythmic in-and-out of the oxygen tank pumping through her nostrils,...

Afghanistan’s failed promises to help people displaced by war

Kabul, May 31, 2016: Afghanistan has failed to live up to a 2014 pledge to care for people displaced by conflict within its borders, according...

Dams, drought and disaster along the Mekong river

Pic: A trench dug into a dry riverbed in seacrh for water in the area around Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake in May Cambodia, May 10, 2016: The dry...

Can de-radicalisation be taught at school?

Pakistan (Peshawar), April 27, 2016: Until recently, Fazal Akbar survived by begging on the streets of the Pakistani city of Peshawar after his mother died...

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